There is no growth without changes, there are no changes without choices…

Wisdom Catcher 2017, is a book made of sentences I collected throughout the year 2017.
I took to my heart the words of Sophocles and developed a habit of regularly catching on paper wisdom in a form of sentences that makes sense to me at a time; and could help me with self-discovery, self-awareness and self-improvement!

The 2017 collection is organized in 8 categories:
· Values and direction
· Attitude and emotions
· Actions and activities
· Goals and dreams
· Successes and failures
· Learnings and changes
· People and relations
· A good life and happiness

From all the sentences I collected, I have chosen the top 10 for you. The sentences that made the biggest impact on me in 2017.

I hope this book can be of value to you as it is to me. I also hope it will be a place of inspiration and relaxation.

Therefore, I have chosen some of my favourite pictures, which I took lately, to make it also pleasurable for you to view it.

In April 2015, I had the privilege to spend some time with the famous motivational speaker, Mr. Les Brown. I was with Les and his team while he delivered one of his great speeches to more than twenty thousand people in Poznan, Poland. After his performance, we had some private time in his sky box in the stadium. While relaxing, and listening to other speakers, he asked me to tell him about myself. When I finished my story, he said:

Spring is a very special season. It is the season of new opportunities, new energy, new life! It is also the season of sowing and preparing for reaching to our dreams and goals! In the Spring my dreams and goals are waking up, are revitalizing. I see more chances and more ways to get there than I have seen in the Winter that just passed.

I like this Spring energy! I like that the days are getting longer, temperature is getting higher and everything in the Nature starts a new life cycle. Flowers and trees are waking up, everything is more active and searching for the opportunities to expand. There is so much activities and energy in the Spring. The new opportunities present themselves and the new dreams and goals are being born or existing one are being energized.Continue reading →

On 15-3-2017 in the Netherlands 82% of people entitled to vote used their rights to elect a new country representation. The formation of a new government will take for a while, but majority of people all over the World have been enthusiastic to see that the populist and authoritarian party did not become the biggest one. Well done the Netherlands!

However, when we look carefully at the results of this election, what we can see is that the parties which actually did very good job in getting the Netherlands out of the crisis have been punished by voters. The populist party actually gained a few seats when comparing to the last election and the rest of the political environment become even more fragmented.

The question I am asking myself is, what is going on with our freedom and democracy? Continue reading →

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

Francis Bacon

It seems to me that the drama of life take place between two opposites. There is light and there is darkness, there is good and there is evil…

Yes, night comes just after a good day ends, winter comes after the colours of autumn fade away and storm comes after we enjoyed a nice weather. This is how our Word works. It is not good, it is not bad. It is a fact. Continue reading →

I am sure you will agree with me, that if we really want something, we will find the way to get it. We can change priorities, act differently, we can learn new skills, we can hire people to do it for us or ask them for help. When there is a will there is a way. We just need to realize that we want it badly enough, be willing to get out of our comfort zone and to pay the price.Continue reading →